Owensboro and Nashville Railroad

The Owensboro and Nashville Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in western Kentucky in the United States. It operated daily trains from its terminus in Owensboro to Louisville, Kentucky, and to points east and west.[1]

It operated from 1877, when it purchased the defunct Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad, until 1881, when it was purchased by the Owensboro and Nashville Railway.[citation needed] Its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-I CSX Transportation railway.[citation needed] It was later absorbed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.[2]

It connected with the Paducah and Elizabethtown (subsequently part of the Illinois Central and now the Paducah and Louisville Railway) at Central City in Muhlenberg County.

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  1. ^ "THE DAVIESS FAIR". Messenger and Examiner. Owensboro, Kentucky. June 29, 1881. Retrieved June 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Taylor, R. Stephen (1974). "James Weir, First Citizen of Owensboro". Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol. 72. pp. 10–19.